Re: Bug#426877: Clarify what "sensible behaviour" is for init scripts

["Iñaki Baz Castillo" <ibc@aliax.net>]

2008/7/6 Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>:

> No those are functions... the main code runs without "set -e" and thus doesn't
> fail on the error and the return value of the function is checked:
>
>        do_start
>        case "$?" in
>                0|1) [ "$VERBOSE" != no ] && log_end_msg 0 ;;
>                2) [ "$VERBOSE" != no ] && log_end_msg 1 ;;
>        esac
>
>
> If do_start returns 0 or 1, the whole script returns "0" (hence success).

Thanks for pointing that, you are right. Anyway I consider it a bit
complex and the fact is that various Debian init scripts return 1 in
the above case.

Thanks for all.


-- 
Iñaki Baz Castillo
<ibc@aliax.net>